William J. H. Boetcker Quotes

We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.

We can create as magnificent an environment as we like, but unless we change the heart it's all a waste of time.

Reform, like charity, must begin at home.

When all is said and done, the only change that will make a difference is the transformation of the human heart.

A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.

We need to make material progress, but we need inner development too ... remember that the real development we seek is not in the buildings but in our hearts and minds.

Are you appalled at existing conditions? Don't waste your energy trying to change conditions from without! Change the Human Heart from within.

In Holman Hunt's painting, "The Light of the World, "Christ is shown in a garden at midnight, holding a lantern in His left hand. With His right hand He is knocking on a heavily paneled door. When the painting was unveiled, a critic remarked to the painter, "Mr. Hunt, the work is unfinished. There is no handle on the door." "That," Hunt answered, "is the door to the human heart. It can be opened only from the inside."

One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.

This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time... It is partly a physical transformation. The body itself is undergoing great changes. My problem before was that I was living largely from the head; and then after the stroke I got down into the heart.

The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

We don't have to remain in this radically destructive mind-set and institutional-set. We can change, and the natural order of things could emerge in all of our societal organizations-government, commerce, religion-it's right there, waiting to happen. I often tell people that every mind is like a room in an old house, stuffed with very old furniture. Take any space in your mind and empty it of your old conceptions and new ones will rush in, good or bad. So change is more a getting rid of rather than an adding to or an acquiring.

Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest.

The proper use of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart.

Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.

We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.

Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all.

The heart of the issue is an issue of the heart. And that's why I'm a pastor, not a politician. Because I think only - only God can change hearts. And only God can take the evil out. I don't think you can legislate the evil out of people.

I'm Starting With The Man In The Mirror I'm Asking Him To Change His Ways And No Message Could Have Been Any Clearer If You Wanna Make The World A Better Place Take A Look At Yourself, And Then Make A Change

All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.

True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.

Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

If you search within your heart, you will find something there that will make it possible for you to understand: a spark of disenchantment and discontent, which if fanned into flame will become a raging forest fire that will burn up the whole of the illusory world you are living in, thereby unveiling to your wondering eyes the kingdom that you have always lived in unsuspectingly.

I believe each human being has the potential to change, to transform one’s own attitude, no matter how difficult the situation.

Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.